Roadrunners

Roadrunners
Originally uploaded by jono1515.

This is a pair of roadrunners I came across this morning at the drill

site today. I took my chances taking the picture, the site is on a naval

base that develops and tests new missles and things and cameras are

banned. Roadrunners are fast and not big on being around people so I

didn't have much time to take the picture, so there's a reflection from

taking it through the windshield of my car. I cropped the picture so you

can actually see them, they blend in really well with the ground and I

couldn't get very close. They're the first roadrunners I've ever seen

though!

Back to work

I'm finally getting back to work! I had most of June to relax and check out Portland. It was nice to have so much time off. I might have gone back to New York but the whole time I was off it looked like I might be going back to work in a few days.
Right now I'm relaxing at the motel in Ridgecrest, I drove down from Portland yesterday (15hrs!). This morning I went and picked up a few things from the drill site down here in the Mojave Desert. I was going to go for a jog, but it's so hot outside that I really don't think I want to. And there is no escaping the sun! There aren't any trees here really so there isn't any shade at all. I'm really glad it's a dry heat though, humidity would really make it unbearable.
Tomorrow I drive back up to Windsor and I'll be working in the office for a week or two. It'll be good to be making money again! Work in the office is really easy. My boss is kind of disorganized and it almost takes him longer to find things for me to do than it takes me to do them. Not that there isn't a ton of stuff to be done, he's just so disorganized.

Relaxin!

It's nice to have some time to finally sit back and relax! I spent a few days in Vancouver on my way back to Portland. It was really nice to see some of my friends. The drive was pretty easy overall, the border was a lot easier than I anticipated. Due to my lack of a work permit or anything for the time I was in Canada my story was that I was visiting friends. You'd think they'd have a few questions to ask a guy with New York license plates that's spent the last 6 weeks visiting friends in Canada crossing the border in Washington. My luck has got to be running out, I've crossed the border too many times without any hassle. One of these times they're going to rip my car apart and hold me up for a few hours, it's bound to happen.
I'm waiting to hear from my boss, I'll probably be heading down to California this weekend for a few days. I'll be going back down there for a longer job towards the end of June. Until then I'm just going to enjoy my time off.